An unelected Senate parliamentarian is blocking key parts of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” striking provisions that would have ended the tax on firearm suppressors and launched a $4 billion tax credit for private school scholarships, the Daily Caller reports.

Elizabeth MacDonough, who was appointed in 2012 under Harry Reid, ruled Friday that these measures violate the Senate’s budget rules. Her decisions have infuriated conservatives who argue she’s undermining the voters’ will and core Republican policies by removing 52 sections from the bill so far.

The silencer tax cut was championed by the House Freedom Caucus, while the school choice tax credit aimed to give millions of students access to private and religious schools. Both are now on ice unless Senate Republicans can rework the language to pass budget hurdles.

MacDonough also dealt a blow to conservative hopes of protecting small Christian colleges like Hillsdale from higher endowment taxes, grouping them with Ivy League giants like Harvard and Yale under the same tax hikes.

Despite these setbacks, Senate Republicans are pushing revised versions of the blocked measures back to MacDonough for review. They’ve had success on some fronts, with MacDonough recently approving a food aid cost-sharing provision projected to save taxpayers $40 billion over a decade after initially rejecting it.

Still, anger is building. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), the first GOP senator to call for MacDonough’s firing, blasted her rulings, arguing that “we do more for illegal immigrants than we do for Americans.” His remarks came after she blocked provisions that would have limited illegal immigrants’ access to Medicare and Medicaid, arguing those restrictions violated budget rules.

For now, Senate Majority Leader John Thune is resisting calls to overrule or fire MacDonough, noting that doing so could derail the entire bill’s progress. Thune hopes to bring the bill to a vote as early as Saturday, aiming to meet Trump’s July 4 deadline.

Meanwhile, conservatives are left questioning why an unelected official is allowed to determine which parts of a president’s signature tax and immigration overhaul live or die, particularly provisions that directly impact gun owners and parents looking for educational alternatives.